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VLADIMIR STOJSAVLJEVIC
PIRANDELLO'S WIFE (a comedy) ARTISTIC UNDERTAKING (a grotesque)

THEME: Love, and the relation between fiction and reality
N° OF CHARACTERS: 4 (1 male and 3 female)
N° OF ACTS: 23 scenes
SETTING: Rome
TIME: The 1930s
WRITTEN IN: 2001

SUMMARY:
Marta Aba, a young and ambitious actress, calls on Pirandello's wife to obtain her permission for performance of his last play. The play does not exist because the playwright's widow has tried to destroy it, but when she realises that she has a chance to cash in on it she tries to reconstruct the work from the remnants of the manuscript. Her maid helps her to do so but things become complicated when she falls in love with the companion of the young actress. In their struggle for the young man's favours, the three women experience hatred but also friendship, and the possible solution is found in Luigi Pirandello's farewell letter...

THEME: An artistic project
N° OF CHARACTERS: 5 (3 male and 2 female)
N° OF ACTS: 1
SETTING: The banks of a city river
TIME: The present
WRITTEN IN: 1999

SUMMARY:
Two young students at the Academy, a young woman and a young man, are looking for homeless people living on the outskirts of the city. They want to move them into a old factory and prepare an exhibition from everyday life. Late at night they find three candidates, two men and a women. The men have just pooled their money to pay the "lady" for her services, but she has decided to haggle over the price, seeing herself as Brigitte Bardot.

The play was premiered at the Croatian National Theatre in Rijeka in 1999. It has been translated into English.

BIOGRAPHY:
VLADIMIR STOJSAVLJEVIC (Bjelovar 1950) went to school in Zagreb and reached degree finals level in Comparative Literature and Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. He graduated in Direction from the ADA in Zagreb. He has worked as a professional associate in music and stage productions at the new Zagreb Culture Centre, been editor of theatre publications at the Croatian National Theatre in Split, and since 1987 has done promotion work for the EUROKAZ theatre festival and Contemporary Dance Week in Zagreb. He has worked for the Zagreb Youth Theatre in marketing and advertising, and as editor-in-chief at the Zagreb Culture and Information Centre. A series of his prose works and drama texts have been published, many of the latter having been staged.